Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestly Meets Real-Life ‘Devil Wears Prada’ Inspiration Anna Wintour at Milan Fashion Week

Divas collided at the Dolce & Gabbana Milan Fashion Week show on Sept. 27, as Meryl Streep, reviving her character Miranda Priestly from 2006’s “The Devil Wears Prada,” met up with real-life Vogue editor Anna Wintour backstage. Wintour, who served as Vogue’s lead fashion editor from 1988 to 2025, was the supposed inspiration for Streep’s mercilessly powerful, yet impeccably elegant Priestly, who runs the fictional fashion magazine Runway in the film.

Both donning their iconic dark sunglasses at the indoor event, the pair shared a hug and a laugh backstage. A video posted on Vogue’s Instagram shows the two rubbing shoulders, catching up, and Streep, clearly breaking character, admitting, “This is my first fashion show.” The video also shows Wintour chatting with Streep’s co-star, Stanley Tucci, who played fashion correspondent Nigel Kipling in the 2006 film, and Simone Ashley, who is set to appear alongside Streep and Tucci in “The Devil Wears Prada 2” next year.

“The Devil Wears Prada 2” will be a direct sequel to the original movie. In addition to Streep, Tucci and Ashley, the film will see the returns of Anne Hathaway as Andy Sachs, Emily Blunt as Emily Charlton, Tibor Feldman as Irv Ravitz and Tracie Thoms as Lily. Kennith Bragah joins the cast as Priestly’s husband alongside fellow franchise newcomers Lucy Liu, Justin Theroux, B.J. Novak and Pauline Chalamet. David Frankel and Aline Brosh McKenna return as director and screenwriter, respectively. 20th Century Studios will release the film in May 2026, nearly twenty years after the original’s release.

Streep, Tucci and Ashley sat side-by-side in the front row at the event’s spring 2026 collection runway show, each dressed head-to-toe in Dolce & Gabbana. Streep wore a vinyl trench coat from the SS25 runway collection, with a lamé animalier shirt, slim-fit trousers, a leopard print belt, a leopard print faux fur Marlene clutch and green pumps. Tucci sported a deconstructed single-breasted Galles wool suit with a black cotton shirt and a leopard print chiffon foulard, while Ashley wore a tulle corset with satin cups and satin boning detail above a crystal mesh skirt from the FW24-25 runway, a collection of satin corset-style culottes with the DG logo and patent leather pumps. She carried a black leather MySicily handbag. All three put on the serious demeanors of their fashion-savvy characters for the show’s duration.